People v. Greeman

Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256-257 [2006]), after a colloquy in which the court clearly explained to him that the waiver was separate from the rights automatically forfeited by a guilty plea, and that it encompassed the very issue he now seeks to raise concerning his forged instrument conviction. In any event, regardless of whether defendant validly waived his right to ap*464peal, his claim that he pleaded guilty to a “nonexistent crime” has been waived for an independent reason. Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second…